Somerville
Older Bostonians might still derisively call it "Slummerville", but today that tired old moniker couldn't be further from the truth. Packed with upwardly mobile professionals and longtime residents, Somerville is often voted an "All-America City" and the best-run city in Massachusetts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard Art Museums.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Museum
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas.
Harvard Art Museums
Museum
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The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cambridge and Charlestown.
Cambridge
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Cambridge is a city in Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. It is renowned as the home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both widely considered to be among the best universities in the world.
Charlestown
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Boston's Charlestown was the traditional home of employees at the now-decommissioned Navy Yard. It has experienced a shift in its population and industry and an increasing number of young professionals are joining the families who have lived in the area for years.
Medford
Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of the 2020 United States census, Medford's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus on both sides of the Medford and Somerville border.
Somerville
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.3876° or 42° 23′ 15″ northLongitude
-71.0995° or 71° 5′ 58″ westPopulation
81,000Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)United Nations Location Code
US UZBOpen location code
87JC9WQ2+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 158861032OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Somerville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سومرفيل”
- Armenian: “Սոմերվիլ”
- Basque: “Somerville”
- Bulgarian: “Съмървил”
- Catalan: “Somerville”
- Cebuano: “Somerville”
- Chechen: “Сомервиль”
- Chinese: “Somerville”
- Chinese: “萨默维尔”
- Chinese: “薩默維爾”
- Czech: “Somerville”
- Dagbani: “Somerville”
- Danish: “Somerville”
- Dutch: “Somerville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سومرفيل”
- Esperanto: “Somerville”
- French: “Somerville”
- German: “Somerville”
- Gilaki: “سؤمرويل (ماساچۊست)”
- Gilaki: “سؤمرويل”
- Greek: “Σόμερβιλ”
- Haitian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Somerville”
- Hebrew: “סומרוויל”
- Hungarian: “Somerville”
- Interlingua: “Somerville”
- Irish: “Somerville”
- Italian: “Somerville”
- Japanese: “サマーヴィル (マサチューセッツ州)”
- Japanese: “サマーヴィル”
- Japanese: “サマービル (マサチューセッツ州)”
- Japanese: “サマービル”
- Japanese: “ソマーヴィル”
- Kazakh: “Сомэрвилл”
- Kirghiz: “Сомэрвилл”
- Korean: “서머빌”
- Ladin: “Somerville”
- Latin: “Somerville”
- Malagasy: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Malagasy: “Somerville”
- Mazanderani: “سامرویل (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “سامرویل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Somerville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Somerville”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somerville”
- Norwegian: “Somerville”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Somerville”
- Persian: “سامرویل، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “سامرویل”
- Polish: “Somerville”
- Portuguese: “Somerville”
- Romanian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Romanian: “Somerville”
- Russian: “Сомервилл”
- Serbian: “Самервил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Somerville”
- Slovak: “Somerville”
- Slovenian: “Somerville”
- South Azerbaijani: “سامرویل، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Somerville (Massachusetts)”
- Spanish: “Somerville”
- Swahili: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Somerville”
- Swedish: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Swedish: “Somerville”
- Talysh: “Somervill”
- Tatar: “Сомервиль”
- Turkish: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Somerville”
- Ukrainian: “Сомервіль”
- Urdu: “سومرویل، میساچوسٹس”
- Urdu: “سومرویل”
- Uzbek: “Somerville”
- Vietnamese: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Vietnamese: “Somerville”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Somerville”
- Volapük: “Somerville”
- Waray (Philippines): “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Waray (Philippines): “Somerville”
- Welsh: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Somerville”
- Western Armenian: “Աոմըրվիլ”
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